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Month: June 2017

  • News, Library Cataloging, and Weekly Prompts

    BSB News First up…the newsletter is going to be a week late this quarter. So instead of it going out tomorrow, it will hit your inboxes next Monday, July 3rd. Which is just in time to announce an Independence Day sale, so watch that inbox! Did you find last week’s freebie download? MacKenzie Saves the…

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  • “First Kiss” and “Skills” by Jamie DeBree

    Prose Writing Prompt of the Week: Write about a fictional first job interview. Poetry Prompt of the Week: Write a poem about a (yours, or someone else’s) first kiss. First Kiss by Jamie DeBree It wasn’t supposed to be like this. Smooth, slimy skin mashing my lips, like a snail spreading awkward wetness. His energy and…

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  • News, First Books, & Weekly Writing Prompts

    BSB News Snow White and the Seventeen Dwarfs by Ford Forkum is now available! Have you gotten your copy yet? What are you waiting for? Get yours in print or ebook formats on Amazon.com… And then come back here and check out the excerpt from Tempest,  last week’s free download, if romantic suspense is your thing. Then…

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  • “Ivy” and “Kudzu” by Carol R. Ward, “Innocent Evil” by Jamie DeBree

    Prose Writing Prompt of the Week: Write about an incident that ends up being the backstory for another incident in the character’s current timeline. Poetry Prompt of the Week: Write a poem about a vine, doing its vine-y thing… Our prose prompt was a bit too obscure it seems, but we have two poems and a story…

    Read More: “Ivy” and “Kudzu” by Carol R. Ward, “Innocent Evil” by Jamie DeBree

  • Release Day Interview: Snow White and the Seventeen Dwarfs by Ford Forkum

    Get your ebook now on Amazon for 99 cents!  Happy Flag Day and Release Day to our resident satirist, Ford Forkum! To celebrate his new book, we’re interviewing Ford here on the blog today. Well Ford, it looks like you’ve done it again! Another fairy tale falls under your pen, so to speak, and we’re…

    Read More: Release Day Interview: Snow White and the Seventeen Dwarfs by Ford Forkum

  • News, Backstory, & Weekly Writing Prompts

    BSB News Snow White and the Seventeen Dwarfs by Ford Forkum releases this Wednesday, June 14th – Flag Day! If you’ve read Cinderelleper, you know just how much fun is in store with this latest book, and you can even pre-order it now on Amazon for just 99 cents! Last week’s free download was The Old…

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  • Falling by Jamie DeBree & Rare Books by Carol R. Ward

    Poetry Prompt of the Week: Write a poem about falling off a cliff. Prose Writing Prompt of the Week: Write about something that really happened to you in the style of a fiction novel. Give it a cliffhanger ending. Falling  by Jamie DeBree It’s always a little bit scary at first. A glance, a look, a flush…

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  • News, Cliffhangers, & Weekly Writing Prompts

    BSB News Did you find last week’s free PDF download of Canvas by Alex Westhaven? It’s a short, creepy little story featuring one of my favorite “heroines”. You can meet her in the excerpt we’ve recently added to the book page… Have fun searching for this week’s free PDF download in our Available Books section!…

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  • “Pouty the Walrus” and “Table for Two” by Carol R. Ward

    Poetry Prompt of the Week: Write a poem about a favorite childhood toy, and how you enjoyed playing with it. Prose Writing Prompt of the Week: Someone walks into a coffee shop/bar/tea shop/ice cream parlor and all the tables have at least one person sitting at them. Pick a person for your to sit and have…

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